Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Acer Incorporated

23 pending office actions • 21 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 160 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
8
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
21
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (87%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only1 (4%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
9% of docket
8
Information Tech
35% of docket
10
Communications
43% of docket
2
Semiconductors
9% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WATKO, JULIE ANNE 1 74.5% +12.3%
MANDEVILLE, JASON M 1 55.5% +46.7%
AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 1 77.6% +11.3%
MORRISON, RASHEN E 1 84.8% +11.5%
SONNERS, SCOTT E 1 69.0% +12.2%
COLEMAN, RYAN L 1 55.8% +60.2%
BAYNES, KEVIN J 1 74.7% +33.1%
FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 1 63.5% +18.6%
TEKLE, DANIEL T 1 63.4% -6.7%
JOSEPH, DENNIS P 1 48.6% +18.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18786549 FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE MORRISON, RASHEN E 44d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18773091 IMAGING METHOD FOR VIDEO CONFERENCE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM SONNERS, SCOTT E 49d overdue
19194010 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND LIGHTING EFFECT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF WATKO, JULIE ANNE 46d overdue
18786549 FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE MORRISON, RASHEN E 44d overdue
18739647 USER EQUIPMENT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 24d overdue
18769582 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CLEANING METHOD THEREOF AND DETERMINATION METHOD OF FAN STATUS DETERMINATION MODEL THEREOF COLEMAN, RYAN L 5d
19079092 TOUCH PANEL ASSEMBLY MANDEVILLE, JASON M 14d
18743084 ATTACHMENT MECHANISM BAYNES, KEVIN J 14d
18515276 ILLUMINATED TOUCHPAD JOSEPH, DENNIS P 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2411 2
2481 2
2627 1
2623 1
2693 1
2841 1
2613 1
1714 1
3678 1
2621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19194010 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND LIGHTING EFFECT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF WATKO, JULIE ANNE 2627 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2025
19079092 TOUCH PANEL ASSEMBLY MANDEVILLE, JASON M 2623 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 13, 2025
18815848 AUDIO EFFECT ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS USED FOR AUDIO EFFECT ADJUSTMENT AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18786549 FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE MORRISON, RASHEN E 2841 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2024
18773091 IMAGING METHOD FOR VIDEO CONFERENCE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM SONNERS, SCOTT E 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2024
18769582 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CLEANING METHOD THEREOF AND DETERMINATION METHOD OF FAN STATUS DETERMINATION MODEL THEREOF COLEMAN, RYAN L 1714 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jul 11, 2024
18743084 ATTACHMENT MECHANISM BAYNES, KEVIN J 3678 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18739647 USER EQUIPMENT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 2411 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jun 11, 2024
18518472 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND VIDEO CLIP EXTRACTION METHOD THEREOF TEKLE, DANIEL T 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2023
18515276 ILLUMINATED TOUCHPAD JOSEPH, DENNIS P 2621 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18513614 STEREOSCOPIC CAMERA DEVICE LU, TOM Y 2667 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 19, 2023
18472189 METHOD OF HANDLING CONDITIONAL HANDOVER WITH CANDIDATE SECONDARY CELL GROUP, SOURCE MASTER NODE, AND USER EQUIPMENT BOTELLO, FABIAN 2648 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18360823 OBJECT RECOGNITION DEVICE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD SHUI, MING 2663 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18314826 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM ZHAO, CHRISTINE NMN 2677 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending May 10, 2023
18302797 METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR RECEPTION OF PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL AND TRANSMISSION OF PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL PARK, JUNG H 2411 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 19, 2023
18302000 TRANSMISSION DIRECTION SETTING METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, NETWORK DEVICE EGAN KEARNS, PHILLIP JUSTIN 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18187687 BOOST CONVERTER SUN, PINPING 2872 Non-Final OA 202d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18121015 Device and Method for Handling Search Space Set Group and Transmission Configuration Indicator State LEE, CHI HO A 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 14, 2023
18117486 ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SPEAKER PROTECTION MECHANISM EDWARDS, CAROLYN R 2692 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18099567 VIRTUAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN OPERATING INTERFACE OF A GUEST VIRTUAL MACHINE TRAINOR, DANIEL BRENNAN 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18096767 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATION BOX, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17873121 Device and Method of Handling a Handover PHUNKULH, BOB A 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2022
17736109 BATTERY MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF KENLAW, GRACE A 1723 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending May 04, 2022

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